#it's extra obvious here

[biffhofosho]

I'm bored at work, so I felt like sharing a little MX locker project I did to brighten up my work days. It's made mostly with freebies from photocard purchases I made and some cool stickers and washi tapes from some talented MBB sellers on Etsy. I stuffed it with cute nostalgia stuffs as well as my entire The Midnight cassette collection, which miraculously fits exquisitely.

Yes, I went overboard (I don't know any other way). Yes, I promise you I am 42.

Going to post the next chap of "Hot Girls Blank" by the end of this week or very beginning of next. Such a fun story to write!

[artzyleen]

Owen Teague & Kevin Durand interview for Agents of Fandom on YouTube, may 2024

full interview

[mistfallengw2]

Hey, a sylvari ask game!🌱

1. Are they a Dreamer or Soundless? What's their relationship with the Pale Mother and Ventari's teachings? If the first, have they ever thought about leaving the Dream behind? If the latter, why did they make that choice?

2. How much do they remember from the Dream? Did they have any particular experience in it before awakening?

3. Do they have a Wyld Hunt? Did they complete it?

4. How was their awakening? Did something particular happen? What's their first memory?

5. Are they from the first batch of Secondborn or did they awaken at some later point? What's their opinion on the Firstborn?

6. What did they do after leaving the Grove? Did they feel a particular call or did they just roam and explore Tyria? Would they still feel at home if they went back?

7. What was their first experience with other races? How did it impact them?

8. Do they fit well into sylvari society or are they more at home with other races? How do they feel about fellow sylvari? Do they have any particular sympathy or antipathy for other races?

9. Do they have a job/occupation? Why did they pick that? Did they ever change it? Are they happy with it or are they aiming for something else?

10. What are their hobbies and pastimes? Do they have any natural talent or particularly strong interest? Was it something they knew from the Dream or did they develop it once awakened?

11. Have they ever changed their own appearance? Was it intentional or due to external factors? Did it affect their glow as well? How long did it take? Would they ever change back?

12. What do they usually wear? Do they prefer regular clothes or growing "clothes" out of their bodies?

13. How do they feel about death? Does it make them curious or scared? Do they wish to understand it or do they simply accept it?

14. What do they think of the Nightmare Court? Would they ever join it? What would make them do so? / What made them join them? Would they ever leave it?

15. What are their feelings on their race being minions of the Jungle Dragon? What's their attitude towards those who turned? How do they feel about the shift in perception of their people from other races?

16. Where were they when the call of Mordremoth struck? Did they hear and follow it, or did they resist it?

17. If they were to turn into Mordrem, what would they look like? Would they manage to turn back? / When they turned into Mordrem, how did their appearance change? Did they manage to fully turn back?

18. [Free space for 3 pieces of trivia about your sylvari!]

[dotpyenji]

happy bisexual day to those who celebrate

[aheathen-conceivably]

Gather one, gather round, my friends! Lets play a little tabletop game I like to call....

[tekatonic]

Decided to compile all the (digital) Tails stuff I hadn't posted throughout 2022 ! ( most recent to least recent ) The second image is @tsaikonautz's Tails design drawn in the style I use for my sonas and related ocs.

( newer Tails design here )

[hmmm-fiction]

I'm pretty worried about what's going to happen when Mark finds out that Titan is running Machine Head's empire. Like, I think Titan is a good man trying to fix things in his city, and the way to do that isn't black and white. Especially in an underprivileged area (we saw the struggle w tether tyrant and magmaniac too).

But with Mark's reaction to the reanimen and Darkwing II, I worry he won't bother hearing him out. Oliver could be a problem too, since he's too young to understand the societal complexity that drives a lot of people to commit crimes, and might just attack bc 'they're the bad guys!!!'

[aquared]

where did this small victorian london orphan boy find wifi

[calliopeos]

do you all ever think about how Scott Westerfeld predicted our ever-worsening obsession with beauty with Uglies (2006) because I do

[andromeda3116]

idk man i kinda feel like if you think reading my fic was a waste of your time, maybe you could save yourself some of that time by just hitting the back button instead of writing a comment to complain about it?

[aranarumei]

how much does sasaki talk about hirano?

hey everyone. I’m coming to you live with an INVESTIGATIVE REPORT about the one and only sasaki shuumei. the question above pretty much summarizes what I'm trying to find out. so I’ll expand on this under the cut. apologies in advance for any typos

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there’s a scene that’s always made me confused ever since I first read it (which wow. I’ve been reading this manga as it updates since partly through volume 3… crazy how far its come!) and that is this sequence of two pages in the extras of Vol 7 (39.5), below:

hirano’s like “well, it’s fine to talk about me to miyano as long as you didn’t say any weird stuff about me” and sasaki goes. Silent. Now I at the time assumed like. ah sasaki’s talking about the hirano and kagiura relationshipisms. or the whole uke thing. right?

…right?

see, the thing is: when sasaki visits campus in ch 46, he asks the basketball team about a kagi-kun, and then when miyano questions him about what he was doing, he’s like “oh I just remembered hirano’s old roommate was on the basketball team,” and then refuses to even tell miyano his name. so it’s like… did sasaki EVER talk about hirano’s roommate to Miyano? like of his own initiative? did he offer any information? so I decided that instead of just bringing that question up, I’d reread all of sasaki to miyano and get my answer.

disclaimer that this deals with exclusively the manga: I have this hidden fear that I’m going to post this and get a reply like “oh this is 50% of the entire novel content” but! the scene in question comes up in the manga! I think it ought to then refer to an event in the manga! but seriously if stuff like that does come up in the novel feel free to chime in. also bc I was rereading the whole manga I have Other Thoughts Too but. those can hopefully marinate their way into other posts.

ch 2:

miyano: But I saw you! I saw you laughing as you chatted with a first-year boy from class 1A in the basketball club with a lovely smile!

this does not count. miyano brings this up to hirano himself. in fact a lot of miyano putting hirano into bl contexts happens In Front Of Hirano’s Face. not really a conversation starter for sasaki. it does make ch 46 way more interesting bc it means like. sasaki has remembered that kagiura’s on the basketball team to the point that he wants to check in on him? whereas miyano like Knows this info yet never really pursues it. suppose it’d be awkward to just go up and try to find him without knowing his name, though.

ch 4:

sasaki says “but hirano can handle alcohol fine” which is perfectly on topic since they were just discussing how sasaki can’t handle it. it’s miyano that spins into bl fantasies afterwards. also hirano is right there in this situation. does not count.

ch 5:

sasaki: Hirano’s playing Oiwa-san for the haunted house. Want to see? He’s crossdressing and wearing a wig.

this does count. sasaki is bringing up hirano and telling miyano something that miyano would totally get excited about. it is, I would say, not brought up out of nowhere, since they discuss crossdressing right before. unrelated to this I would love to see the image of sasaki as hanako-san of the toilet.

ch 6:

sasaki asks about miyano’s love life and when miyano says that he’s not romantically interested in anyone around here, and sasaki asks “what about hirano?” miyano says he ships him with his roommate and the conversation ends there. I would say this also does not count—yeah, he’s perhaps bringing up hirano as a romantic prospect, but I think this is more sasaki like. being jealous more than it is using him as a reason to talk to miyano. he’s like. a pretty jealous guy.

ch 8:

sasaki tells miyano that his grades suck and hirano’s been tutoring him. this does not count.

ch 11:

sasaki says “don’t you prefer black-haired ukes?” and “ah, you mean like hirano?” when miyano says he prefers manly ukes. this does count. while it’s in the topic of conversation, there’s not a real reason he has to bring hirano up. plus, he even continues it with “hirano’s pretty tall. can he still not be a seme?” so it’s using hirano to keep a conversation going with miyano, but I will note it’s not what starts the conversation.

ch 13:

sasaki talks about hirano getting banned from doing the ball toss. this does not count.

ch 24.5:

“ooh, if it was hirano, it would be taiko” says sasaki when miyano brings up all the girl names that he and his classmates would have. this does not count. it’s a natural extension of the various female names they’ve been talking about, sasaki included, and hirano’s their mutual friend.

ch 33:

sasaki brings up hirano’s dedication to studying and how he says that getting accepted to university isn’t the finish line. says hirano’s pretty cool for that mindset. this does not count.

ch 41:

sasaki says "haha, yikes! hirano was a terrible influence!" when miyano tells him about kuresawa getting a piercing. this does not count. it’s also after graduation, where the scene happened.

ch 42.5:

sasaki is like wow I can't believe hirano's roommate does THAT in the mornings to miyano, regarding vol 2 of sasaki to miyano. however this kind of thing isn't quite canonical since they know there are books being published about them so. this does not count.

halloween 2018 extra:

miyano asks if sasaki's friends got their items confiscated, and sasaki replies by saying that hirano's in charge of confiscation for their class, so their class had the idea to overwhelm him. this does not count.

dvd extra 4:

sasaki tells miyano about how they ripped the wallpaper on accident, and once he said it kind of gave it a badboy feel, they started doing it on purpose. hirano participated in it too. this does not count.

I’ve probably missed some, but we can see that out of all of these situations, only TWO are actually what I’d qualify as “weird” by hirano’s metrics. unless sasaki talking about the wild stuff Hirano gets up to includes his ball toss strategy and him ripping up wallpaper. then it’s four. my point is that sasaki says it’s “a lot” when it’s not. so… why is that?

I’ve been mulling over a couple of ideas regarding this, but I kind of don’t want to offer up my own interpretations first? plus when I tried writing my answer I spun off into a really bad tangent, so… post ends here. hope we all learned something here!

[the-s1lly-corner]

(QUESTION)

I don't know if this is going to sound demanding but shouldn't you like take a break for a Day or 3 with all this writing your doing

Not gonna lie you probably making some straight fire rn but is it dew time for a break?

0h 100% I need a break- but taking breaks is... hard for me; stubbornness and watching dead lines creep closer and stuff--- would take a break in an instant if we weren't rapidly barreling to October 😭😭

I am trying to lessen the load, though! (Closing requests, putting large non deadlined writing projects on back burners, ect) so I can focus on the heavy stuff so theres... less down the line... cuz I KNOW imma get worse the closer we march to October 😭😭😭

I do plan to take my trip out of state next month as an excuse to take a couple days off though :3 mweheheheheh

As a /lh note I've learned my lesson!! Next year I am NOT going to do 2 October writing challenges at once- idc if I started prepping in January I'm still going through kt!!!! Also a 3 month break after constant writing for 9 months just to do it again does not at all sound appealing LMAO

Maybe I'll set some time aside and do some drawing soon

[vicciouxs]

*RUNNING INTO YER INBOX* HEYHEYHEY!!! 📻 for Knox & Seth!!!

AAAAAA MY BOYS THANK U THANK U 😭💕

A BURNING HILL ★ mitski.

I am a forest fire And I am the fire and I am the forest And I am a witness watching it I stand in a valley watching it And you are not there at all

OKOK lets start with knox, I really didn't mean to be so repetitive, but there's no better song than this one to describe him. At the end of the day, and no matter how hard he tries to justify himself, Knox will always be his own enemy, the greatest of all, "he will be the fire and the forest" and he will also be "the witness", because he is aware of the pain he causes himself with his decisions. For the comfort of his soul, he prefers to be the "forest fire" rather than someone else, although in the end, like any fire, his decision to leave before he is abandoned will end up harming more people than himself. However, after a lot of work and as the song says, in the end he will try to "love the little things" and stop being afraid.

CHANGE ☆ deftones.

I took you home Set you on the glass I pulled off your wings Then I laughed

WHAT TO SAY ABOUT SETH, I've been very tempted to put "can you feel my heart" back on, BUT "change" I think represents more of his instability.

Seth and his lack of identifying emotions is of no help to his relationships, as he only moves by sensations, if something feels good he stays, if it feels bad he leaves, no matter the situation. For him, this lack is normal, it has always been with him so he does not feel the need to change. But the people around him do, they all change while he remains trapped in his little loop. Now, what happens when [redacted] wants to change, when that person wants to get away from him? There's a change in the loop and the feeling changes, so he has the need to keep everything under control to continue feeling good, he needs to "set it in the glass". What he doesn't realize is that what he's actually doing is "tearing off its wings"

[lovinggreeniehours]

"have you finally decided to destroy the world?" 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️

[cavedwell]

the way i'm losing my mind to do everything perfectly and keep this apartment in pristine condition and then i find years worth of dirty socks and used napkins and dust and fuck knows what else under the bed :| like if i were a different person, my landlords would get in trouble with ME but alas i am only myself and i know i won't say anything

[mikhailoism]

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